See Ichthyology, and Angling.

CARPEA, in Greek Antiquity, a kind of mimetic dance peculiar to the Epiansians and Magnesians. It was performed by two persons, the one representing a labourer, the other a robber. The labourer, laying by his arms, began to plough and sow, but looking warily around as if afraid of being surprised. The robber at length appears, and the labourer seizes his arms and fights in defence of his oxen. Sometimes the robber was overcome, sometimes the labourer—the victor's reward being the oxen and plough. The design of this exercise was to accustom the peasants to defend themselves against the attacks of ruffians. (Xen. Anab. vi.; Athen. i.; Maxim. Tyr. Diss. xxviii.)

CARPATHIAN Mountains, or KRAPACKS, a great central European chain, inclosing Transylvania and Hungary, in a curve 800 miles long, the eastern point of which